What do we do?

We help you to craft the kinds of relationships you want to see thrive in your organisation.

Relationships aren’t formed randomly.  

They are shaped by our conditions and our capacities: the environments we move in, the skills we have developed, and the habits we have acquired.

Intentional design

There are a huge number of factors influencing how we interact with each other - meaning that there are lots of levers we can pull to influence those interactions.

RELATIONAL

STRUCTURE: who’s there?

SATISFACTION: how does it feel?

BEHAVIOUR: what do you do?

CAPACITY: how skilled?

GAPS: what’s missing?

ASPIRATION: where are you going?

Some of these levers exist at the level of an organisation - both physical and structural things (like office architecture and tech infrastructure), and things that are more intangible (like social norms and the rituals and practices that have been developed for bringing people together).

Then there are the factors playing out at the level of the group or individual. What are people’s perceptions of their social roles? Which behaviours are rewarded, and which are repressed? And, crucially, how developed are their social muscles?

Why social fitness matters
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Relationship skills are best learnt in relationship

Relationship skills can’t be learnt from a book, a podcast or a YouTube video. We have to practise them in real time and on real issues, with guidance and support. The Social Gym’s Conditioning Workouts are designed to help your people do just that: carefully structured small group programmes that build skills incrementally for lasting results.

Check out our programmes

We offer three critical modules for our group training plans: Core Work, Strength Training, and Cardio.

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CORE WORK

Skills that are critical to all relationships

  • Listening

  • Rapport building

  • Questioning

  • Empathising

  • Attuning

  • Initiating

  • Self-regulating

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STRENGTH TRAINING

Skills that build resilience, boost stability and define the shape of relationships

  • Building trust

  • Managing rejection

  • Deepening connections

  • Hosting

  • Bridging

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CARDIO

Skills that are crucial for the higher stakes, heart-pumping moments that feature in all significant relationships

  • Disagreeing well

  • Navigating conflict

  • Persuading

  • Repairing

  • Ending relationships

  • Containing change

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Powerful socio-economic forces are shaping our relationships - like who is made to feel like they ‘belong’ in a community or society, who we are used to encountering in our daily lives, and the kinds of conversations and relationships we have role-modelled for us in leaders and public figures.

But there is a lot that we can do by ourselves and - especially - within our relationship circles, like organisations and communities, to ensure these forces do not dictate our social wellbeing.

Find out what this looks like in practice

Explore our programmes